On Wed, Mar 30, 2016 at 9:16 PM, Manuel M T Chakravarty < c...@justtesting.org> wrote:
> Thank you for all the replies and especially pointing to this ticket. > > I think, the discussion on this ticket is actually misleading and there is > a simple solution, which I added as a comment. > That is in fact not simple at all: with that, the ostensibly pure `show` now depends on the user's locale and therefore should be in IO (and you cannot reliably feed it to `read` in a program running in a different locale)! This is why the ticket was concentrating on ghci, where it's at least somewhat reasonable to assume a UTF8 environment. -- brandon s allbery kf8nh sine nomine associates allber...@gmail.com ballb...@sinenomine.net unix, openafs, kerberos, infrastructure, xmonad http://sinenomine.net
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